Catholic Church's U.S. Leadership Mired in Scandal -
Pope Announces New Hierarchy Among Cardinals
By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY
By AP Wireservice
US Cardinals, wearing new colorcoded caps, reciting, 100 times: "I shall never, never covet another altar boy again"
As the USA's Roman Catholic Church roils with reports of sexual abuse by priests and coverups from neighborhood parishes to cathedrals, Catholics and non-Catholics alike wonder: What will it take to "purify" this church? Who will lead the way? Every week, men and women step forward with painful memories of sexual abuse by priests during their childhood or teen years. |